Quotes About Equality

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

...the man of my dreams is a girl.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.